
Chicago's Top Cop Faces Questions Over Claims Officers Collaborated With ICE
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The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability will question Supt. Larry Snelling.
Police Supt. Larry Snelling has faced months of intense criticism over allegations officers violated city law by helping federal immigration agents during aggressive raids of the city.
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Chicago's Top Cop Faces Questions Over Claims Officers Collaborated With ICE
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Police Supt. Larry Snelling has faced months of intense criticism over allegations officers violated city law by helping federal immigration agents during aggressive raids of the city.
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First off tonight, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling has faced months of intense criticism over allegations officers violated city law by helping federal immigration agents during aggressive raids across the city.
Now, members of the community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability.
Well, finally, question him about those interactions and what comes next.
Our Heather Sharon joins us now live from Kelly College Prep High School in Brighton Park on the city's southwest side.
For more now, Heather, this is a second special meeting of the Commission to focus on CP.
These interactions with federal immigration agents.
Remind what happened the first time around.
>> Well, it was just 48 hours after federal agents killed Renee good in Minneapolis and dozens of Chicagoans pleaded with the commission to ask the Chicago Police Department to do more to not only protect them from federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump's orders of mass deportation but also do more to protect them and not help officer or help federal agents carry out those orders.
They demanded that the commission superintendent selling attend a meeting and that finally, 3 months later is scheduled for the auditorium.
You see behind me.
>> And Heather, what do you expect to hear from the superintendent tonight?
>> Well, he has consistently said that Chicago police officers under his command to comply with Chicago welcoming ordinance, which in most cases prevents Chicago officers from helping federal agents carry out civil immigration enforcement actions.
However, he says that officers have an obligation to respond for calls for help from federal agents and to keep the peace.
He is sure to face tough questions from the commission about how he has.
We struggled at times to keep that balance.
sure many people are going to have those questions.
Now.
>> Mayor Johnson signed an executive order directing CPD to craft a new policy that would allow officers to pro federal agents for criminal misconduct.
Where does that stand?
2 months later?
>> Well, Chicago police have not finalized that draft policy.
It remains in draft form.
According to documents we at Wt Tw News have obtained Johnson said last week at a news conference in response to my questions that actually CPD does not need a new policy to enable officers to investigate federal agents for criminal misconduct.
Now, it's not exactly clear what that means because in most cases, federal agents acting reasonably in the course of their duties are protected from investigation from state and local law enforcement.
I expect we will hear a lot of questions about that tonight as well.
>> And Heather, the commission is also set to at the city's inspector general to get involved.
What do they want to see happen?
>> Well, they want the inspector general to open a probe into whether or not the welcoming city ordinance was actually violated during what the Trump administration referred to as Operation Midway Blitz, which swept the city in the fall.
Now it's not clear whether inspector general will launch that probe.
And in fact, the civilian Office of Police Accountability Now has the power to investigate those complaints after a unanimous vote by the Chicago City Council last month.
But again, it's not clear exactly how those probes will work.
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